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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 1h

Next Up: The Society of Chefs has pledged to use rat droppings only in a way that protects and supports human cuisine.

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Clarissa C. S. Ryan @wintersweet.bsky.social · 13h

(...ballad Tam Lin, not ACOTAR Tam Lin)

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Clarissa C. S. Ryan @wintersweet.bsky.social · 13h

how DOES Tam Lin know all that shit about how to escape though

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Syn @eunisyn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

⚠️ Just a heads up art friends!!! VISTA PRINT is running stuff through AI if you ask for fixes! My friend made a shirt through them to wear for a con and the first print was too dark so she asked them to please fix it so they uh i guess ran it through AI? stop using vista print

comparison chart of vista print using AI to brighten an image thus making all the image... bad.

the AI "fix" of the original image vista print provided

the original piece sent to vista print to be printed on a shirt.

shirt comparison, top is the AI fix bottom is the original dark piece and why it was asked to be remade from vista print.

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sam @lunarriviera.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

non-zero chance that xu lei has something like this pinned to the bulletin board in his office #dmbj

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Clarissa C. S. Ryan @wintersweet.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Yoink! (Don’t worry, I yoinked them properly on the website.) Gift for a friend who will probably be floored by my sudden level-up on gifting 😂

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 12/10/2026

Rochester & surrounding area! I’m gonna be at Needle Drop Records this Tuesday night for a reading with some other local horror authors including @spookhouse.bsky.social. If you’re in the area, come out!

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Clarissa C. S. Ryan @wintersweet.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

low-hanging fruit, but Interviewer: Can you explain this gap on your resume? Graphic designer: Negative space.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026

My cousin organized a series of masked concerts in NYC so immunocompromised and other covid-conscious folks can still enjoy live music events, and is raising funds so he can keep doing so! Love and appreciation to anyone able to chip in 🙏🏾♥️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/pos...

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Positive Deviance NYC: Building Clean Air Culture

Back our next three clean-air NYC music events in 2027 and join a growing community building a more accessible cultural life.

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Nicole Evans | Editor and Author @thoughtsstained.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

ONE MONTH UNTIL I'M A ROMANCE AUTHOR. 😭 What better way to celebrate than announce PREORDERS ARE OPEN, including an amazing partnership with The Crafty Bookstore! Featuring artwork from @annanuna.bsky.social, Paia Arts and @corvidarcana.bsky.social (cover by @sylleth.bsky.social) 😍😍😍 #BookSky

A series of graphics announcing preorders are open for The Beckoned and the Bound by Nicole Evans!

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Clarissa C. S. Ryan @wintersweet.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

it's the Bell Toller from the Hidden Mountain zone in #WhereWindsMeet, which has tons of things that are apparently based directly on Chinese Bronze Age artifacts! I'm love him (link via @kbspangler.com) (Bell Toller image from Game8 because I don't have time to log in right now)

Game screenshot of a large Bronze Age bell with a face, mechanical arms, and a flower crown

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Clarissa C. S. Ryan @wintersweet.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

somewhere in the underworld Huizong is having absolute fits (photos by Jackie Dee Grom)

A rock in Antarctica lying sideways on gravel, with elaborate but natural holes carved into it by wind etc.

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Clarissa C. S. Ryan @wintersweet.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If Emperor Huizong had known about this, Chinese ships would have reached Antarctica in 1103 www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/22/gr...

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Gale Forces | Jackie Dee Grom

The ventifacts of Antarctica’s Dry Valleys

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Laura Blackwell @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Elise does so, so much for us as a writer, an editor, and a member of our community. Let's do something for her, shall we?

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Clarissa C. S. Ryan @wintersweet.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

(Meant to put translation in alt text, totally didn’t 😅)

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Clarissa C. S. Ryan @wintersweet.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

lol yeah no Amazon I don’t think so (Its take on me is that I’m super into two things: my electronic toothbrush and fantasy Chinese literature. Also, it thinks I subscribe to Amazon Prime. I do not. Shouldn’t Amazon KNOW that?! lmaoooo)

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Clarissa C. S. Ryan @wintersweet.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Haha yes! The made-up name of the store that I wrote is “Elegant/Graceful Brothers Department Store”, and the shop employee is claiming the pants look great and they’re not too long

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Clarissa C. S. Ryan @wintersweet.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

(Sorry for the niche jokes, probably.)

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Clarissa C. S. Ryan @wintersweet.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This shop is clearly named 优雅兄弟百货公司. How do you say “It’ll ride up with wear!” in Chinese??

Screenshot of HelloChinese app. There’s a photo of very long slacks. A lifeless generative-AI-looking cartoon attendant says: 这条裤子不长！您看、多好看啊！

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Clarissa C. S. Ryan @wintersweet.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

not to drag out an old meme but this was the inside of my brain just now as I tried to remember the name of that chicken progression fantasy novel and all I got was Chicken Attack!, Bump of Chicken, and Rooster Fighter. (it was Beware of Chicken. I had to google it in the end.)

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Girl Looks at All Those Chickens

ALT: Girl Looks at All Those Chickens

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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Clint Ryan @clinteryan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

$A picture of two pelicans. One pelican has its mouth open and the ChatGPT rose symbol photoshopped over its eye. Text below it, which is full of typos, reads "Chat Gpt perfec t place for put data in for m\ath! Chatbot very Smart and Safe write math safely put data in Chat Gpt. Put Data In Chat Gpt. no problems ever in chhat gpt because good Safety and Support for math writing weak of big math brain. Achat Gpt yes a place for data put data in chat gpt can trust OpenAI for giving good love to math. friend OpenAI"$

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Sensible gremlin tux @tuxkate.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hey folks! This looks like fun — but it’s a “tell us how much to pay you” application and not a “here’s how much we pay” one. So uh. Just in case you’re interested? Here’s the editorial freelancers association pay rates page www.the-efa.org/rates/

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Editorial Rates

The EFA's rate chart represents median rate ranges for editorial services and helps you estimate the cost for your project.

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Clarissa C. S. Ryan @wintersweet.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

they’re gorgeous and it’s probably a good thing that they likely wouldn’t convert to clips well 😂

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Clarissa C. S. Ryan @wintersweet.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

(…I swear it’s at least a little funny if you’ve watched Zhan Zhao Adventures, a fun recent wuxia series saddled with an inappropriately juvenile-sounding name) (I’m not saying they should have translated 雨霖铃 literally, but y’know. Something that sounds less like a kids’ show made to sell toys!)

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Yang Yang Zhan Zhao Adventures

Alt: Clip from Zhan Zhao Adventures looking depressed, although probably not about the title translation. Although it IS raining in the gif…

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Clarissa C. S. Ryan @wintersweet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

honestly what is science even doing!!

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Clarissa C. S. Ryan @wintersweet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I did too, despite my overall feelings about the drama

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Have you seen @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social yet? If not, you are in for a treat --- a thoughtful, wry deep dive into the history, present, and ideology of "AI". Streaming for free on PBS's YouTube channel in the US & Korea, rentable on Kinema elsewhere. notaidoc.com

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Ghost in the Machine

Not AI | Ghost in the Machine - A Documentary by Valerie Veatch | Premiering at Sundance 2026

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

[Checking the submssion queue] Looks like it's Story Submission Sunday! Translunar Travelers Lounge is open for speculative fiction stories of 5000 words or under. Full details on our submission page; please check the guidelines before sending. translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

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Submissions

Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole.

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Clarissa C. S. Ryan @wintersweet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Same!! And I wrote most of a story!!

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Clarissa C. S. Ryan @wintersweet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

1) omg hands 2) [extremely tumblr voice] WATERCOLOR?!?!

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Clarissa C. S. Ryan @wintersweet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I was delighted the first time I saw it in a "this is cool magic!" fantasy game context (art for a Guild Wars 2 expansion) that would've usually been any color EXCEPT pink! Even though I am not a hot pink person when it comes to my own stuff. I've done a play poster with it, though!

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Clarissa C. S. Ryan @wintersweet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

now there's a name I haven't heard in etc.

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Clarissa C. S. Ryan @wintersweet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

...reminds me of how Chinese fonts used to render English 😬 (they're way better now. this is not.)

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Clarissa C. S. Ryan @wintersweet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Extremely stoked for a long book from you!

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Clarissa C. S. Ryan @wintersweet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

(I had a good collection going on Pinterest, but...well. Pinterest.)

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